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little piece from the schengen showdown finale. appreciate your surroundings :)

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With Season 13 complete now, here's the updated season length comparison!

Season 12 remains on top with a total runtime of 6h 31mins, with season 13 a close second (comparatively) at 6h 12min, though it has one episode fewer. It thus decisively beats the third place, which is season 5 at 4h 52min.

This time, I also plotted the runtimes per episode within each season: their average (shown as the blue line), as well as the longest (yellow) and shortest (red) episode.

The longest episode for most seasons was the finale (seasons 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13), with the runners-up the first episode (pilot and seasons 4 and 12), so, who's ready for season 13.5 to have two 1.5h-episodes? as well as the penultimate (seasons 1, 6, 9; though note that season 1 only had 3 episodes).

Initially, I expected the disparity between longest and shortest episode to be the largest for season 13 -- after all, the shortest episode had been 42 minutes, while the finale was almost twice as long at 1h 20min -- but the lead here is season 5 (Race to the End of the World; 23min/55min) followed by season 8 (Arctic Escape; 22min/58min). Both of those are very similar game formats. Season 1 only has four minutes of disparity between the minimum and maximum, or a maximum of 15% difference between episode runtimes, followed by season 4 with 9 minutes of difference, or 20%. Meanwhile, the maximum difference for seasons 5 and 8 were 57.7% and 56.2% respectively (i.e. the shortest episode was less than half as long as the longest, see above). Season 11, 12, and 13 all hover just below 50% difference (48.4%/59.5%/47.4%)

I found it very interesting to see episode length go down over the pre-channel opening seasons and then almost continually up from there-on; though, of course, the games have tended to get longer, too. Season 3, 7, 11 were the tag seasons, though even those have gotten longer as time progresses (for all that I believe each tag game is still only 3 filming days long).

I'm very excited to see where the journey will take them, stats-wise!

Cumulative Season runtime, ordered by length:

Season 12: 6:31:28 Season 13: 6:12:29 Season 5: 4:52:32 Season 6: 4:42:10 Season 10: 4:23:23 Season 11: 4:00:34 Season 8: 3:51:40 Season 9: 3:22:26 Season 4: 3:13:25 Season 3: 3:12:08 Season 7: 3:02:43 Pilot: 1:53:20 Season 2: 1:49:53 Season 1: 1:20:05

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watching jet lag the game the way god intended: while traveling with Deutsche Bahn and we’re delayed

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sam with a backwards hat is not a want but a need

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life got crazy so this took way too long to finish but this is maybe my favorite season besides 13 and 12. Toby Tibees you have my heart.

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ben and adam appreciating the norwegian surroundings may be the most aesthetic jet lag has ever been

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at least 3

… million

So now that we all know about JLTG NYC with Amy how hype are we on a scale of 10-10

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sam and tom, reflecting on their lego challenge: i wish we had more time to come up with terminology

ben and adam at that moment: stick. gidgy. stick. gidgy. this is intuitive. petal. go.

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I need that man with his fancy stripey rainbow pants and homosexual demeanor. biblicaly.

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i love team badam and their son [various mispronunciations of Djungleskog]

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my version of brain rot:

let’s go to the beach beach let’s go get away, they say what they gonna say, have a drink clink found a bud light, bad bitches like me is hard to come by… nicki minjaj

- sung in the voice of adam chase

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since i’m a big blog here (hello!) i was just wondering if i could prompt a common tag for jet lag nebula episode spoilers? i’m appreciative of people tagging their spoilers (as a poor youtube watcher who still appreciates the surprise) but i feel like everybody has their own personal take on what to tag spoilers as and i keep coming across new tags that i don’t have blocked yet (i also don’t like general #spoilers because it affects the rest of my tumblr scrolling)

i’m to suggest a standardization to #jtlg nebula spoilers and please untag the next week so i can go find the amazing posts!

also a friendly reminder to please please please remember to tag ANYTHING you take from nebula the week of with spoilers! even screenshots! thanks!!

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new zealand is a great choice! if you want good guest less seasons, the tags are also my favorite

hmm. after i watch the season finale of jet lag the game s13 (when it comes out on youtube) i'm gonna go back and watch some of the earlier seasons. i've heard good things about s5 (new zealand w toby) and s12 (hide and seek japan) so i'm gonna give those a shot

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@choochoochew get on it

How come nobody has yet made a video cutting together all the times Ben runs like a fucking cartoon character in the background of a camera shot (most of the time Adam filming)? I need a 3 to 5 minute video of Ben Doyle grabbing his hat while running or raising his arms to balance as he walks down some stairs or flails while trying to catch up with Adam.

This is what the internet is for.

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i think the fact i enjoy both ben doyle and le poisson steve says a lot about me as a person

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one of the best lines in all of jet lag: “i don’t know what the laws are here, but i believe if you see a fully grown man sitting under a slide you should be allowed to kill him” -ben doyle, ep 3 season 9

honorable mention: “it’s all in the treeeeeeeees!!” - sam denby, ep 3 season 9

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Want to expose these Americans to hotdog with shrimp-salad.